ts (teststore) is a small Go library that uses Docker to simplify launching temporary database/cache/storage servers for testing purposes.

IMPORTANT NOTE: ts is a work-in-progress and should be treated as such. Please file issues where appropriate.

ts works with both local docker installs and with boot2docker. Usage from inside a container is not yet supported, but should be possible so long as the container has the right privileges.

• Redis
• InfluxDB
• PostgreSQL
• More soon...

Each of teststore's backends implement the same simple API. For example, a simple test that uses the Redis backend with the redigo library might look like:

func TestRedis(t *testing.T) {
	store, err := ts.NewRedis()
	if err != nil {
		t.Error(err.Error())
		return
	}
	defer store.Shutdown()

	u := store.URL()
	conn, err := redis.Dial(u.Scheme, u.Host)
	if err != nil {
		t.Error(err.Error())
		return
	}
	defer conn.Close()

	// set an integer value in redis and read it back
	conn.Do("SET", "k1", 1)
	n, err := redis.Int(conn.Do("GET", "k1"))
	if err != nil {
		t.Error(err.Error())
		return
	}

	if n != 1 {
		t.Error(fmt.Errorf("Redis error: Expected 1, got %d", n))
		return
	}
}

See GoDoc for full library documentation.

• Copyright © 2015 Patrick Carey (https://github.com/paddycarey)
• Licensed under the MIT license.